"Our lawsuit is relying on very clear state law, three different statutes, requiring that jails make public the names and other information on all those being held," said Deborah Jacobs, executive director of the A.C.L.U. of New Jersey.
It was the first to be set up by two secretaries of state (health and home) and under three different statutes, allowing it to investigate the full range of social, health and police services that failed.
It analyzes the constitutionality of two different presumption statutes (one mandatory and one permissive) as they apply to the basic fact of possession of both heroin and cocaine, and the presumed facts of importation and distribution of narcotic drugs.
"We're entitled under three different state statutes to get it".
The ruling came as the House voted to extend for five years a different statute, the FISA Amendments Act, that expanded the government's power to conduct surveillance without warrants.
Highway builders must get up to 16 different approvals involving nine different federal agencies governed by 29 different statutes.
Highway builders must get up to 16 different approvals involving nine different federal agencies, governed by 29 different statutes.
If a court could properly appeal to either canon when faced with a question of statutory interpretation, it could legitimately arrive at least two different interpretations of the meaning of the statute in question.
In its ruling, the Fourth Circuit panel found that "the statute is ambiguous and subject to at least two different interpretations".
